Nahum 3:16
Nahum 3:16 — The New International Version (NIV)
16 You have increased the number of your merchants
till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky,
but like locusts they strip the land
and then fly away.
Nahum 3:16 — English Standard Version (ESV)
16 You increased your merchants
more than the stars of the heavens.
The locust spreads its wings and flies away.
Nahum 3:16 — King James Version (KJV 1900)
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven:
The cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
Nahum 3:16 — New Living Translation (NLT)
16 Your merchants have multiplied
until they outnumber the stars.
But like a swarm of locusts,
they strip the land and fly away.
Nahum 3:16 — The New King James Version (NKJV)
16 You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven.
The locust plunders and flies away.
Nahum 3:16 — New Century Version (NCV)
16 Your traders are more than the stars in the sky,
but like locusts, they strip the land and then fly away.
Nahum 3:16 — American Standard Version (ASV)
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.
Nahum 3:16 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.
Nahum 3:16 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
16 You have produced more businessmen than there are stars in the sky.
⸤They are⸥ like locusts that attack and then fly away.
Nahum 3:16 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
16 You have made your merchants
more numerous than the stars of the sky.
The young locust strips the land
and flies away.
Nahum 3:16 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
16 You increased your merchants
more than the stars of the heavens.
The locust sheds its skin and flies away.
Nahum 3:16 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)
16 You have more traders
than the number of stars in the sky.
But like locusts they strip the land.
Then they fly away.
Nahum 3:16 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)
16 You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven—
The creeping locust strips and flies away.